Nada Ler - Sofronić

Professor of social psychology at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo , a feminist and a fighter for freedom, equality and social justice. She was one of the first feminist theorists and activists from our region. She was born in Sarajevo to a prominent Jewish family, only barely escaping the slaughter of WW2.

She would go on to earn a doctorate in In 1982 from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade with the dissertation " Marxism and the Liberation of Women", which is the first feminist thesis defended in the Yugoslavia. She lectured at numerous universities in Yugoslavia and founded a very important conference “Drug-ca Žena” for the empowerment of women.

For the first time in the socialist world, the conference gathered representatives of women's movements in the East and the West and marked a turning point in the treatment of the "women's issue" in Yugoslav real socialism.